About Me

I am a PhD student in Biostatistics at Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh under the guidance of Dr. George C. Tseng and Dr. Kayhan Batmanghelich. I am also a graduate student researcher under the guidance of Dr. Nader Shaikh at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Publications

In Prep and Review Google Scholar

Education

Institute Major/Title Year
University of Pittsburgh, US Ph.D. in Department of Biostatistics
Advisor: Dr. George C. Tseng
                 Dr. Kayhan Batmanghelich
2021 - Now
National Taiwan University, TW M.S. in Biostatistics at Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Advisor: Dr. Chuhsing Kate Hsiao
Dissertation: Development of a knowledge-based and data-driven
                           network construction method for gene sets.
2017 - 2019
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Guest Scientist in Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Advisor: Dr. Alexander Bockmayr
Project: Gene regulation in regulatory flux balance analysis (rFBA)

2018 Summer

National Cheng Kung University, TW B.S. in Department of Mathematics
B.B.A. in Department of Statistics (Dual Degree)
2013 - 2017

Projects

On-Going Projects
  • High-dimensional mediation analysis with multi-omics data (Joint with Yusi Fang)
  • Identify and validate host signature for UTI and pyelonephritis (collaborate with Dr. Nader Shaikh)
  • High-dimenisonal survival analysis for lung cancer using representative cluster (collaborate with Dr. I-Fang Chung)
Completed Projects

GenetSurf

Title: Project Leader
The Digital Visualization Tool for Survival Analysis with the Gene Network Viewer

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Genome-Wise Association Study with Polygenic Risk Score

Cooperate with Kohan Lee
Under review in Genome Medicine.

COVID-19 Virus Transmission Route

Apply the phylogenetic analysis from Nextstrain on Taiwanese COVID-19 data

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iGEM NCKU Tainan 2016

Our device, U-KNOW, is a urine glucose bio-sensor that can allow people to be aware of the risk for developing diabetes.

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